About Bảo Ninh
Hoàng Ấu Phương, known by the pen name Bảo Ninh, is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, best known for his first novel, published in English as The Sorrow of War. Hoàng Ấu Phương, known by the pen name Bảo Ninh (born 18 October 1952), is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, best known for his first novel, published in English as The Sorrow of War. Ninh won the 1994 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel The Sorrow of War. In 1987, Bảo Ninh published Trại bảy chú lùn (Camp of Seven Dwarves), a collection of short stories. A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat" (Khắc dấu mạn thuyền), translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again.
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